Henry Jacob

Bio: Henry Jacob is a Ph.D. candidate in History. His dissertation examines the U.S. empire in Greenland and Panama from the twentieth century to the present. This summer, Henry will research the transport of nuclear waste through polar and tropical regions. Before graduate school, Henry spent a year in Panama as a Fulbright researcher. Henry received his B.A. in History from Yale and an M.Phil. in World History from Cambridge as a Henry Fellow. He has earned numerous fellowships and awards for his academic and leadership work, including the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize.

Project description: With the generous support of the Nuclear Studies Program, Henry will conduct key dissertation research at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He plans to study the archives of environmental organizations that shaped nuclear policy during and after the Cold War. Henry is particularly interested in surveying debates over the radioactive waste trade in the Arctic and Central America. He contends that non-state actors such as Greenpeace played an outsized role in the formation of national and international nuclear policy.